Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-14
THE pAPER-M FIRE
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS To THOSE
PUBLISHED YESTERDAY.
Insurance on Building, Stock, and Ma
chinery, s64,T5o; Damage Nearly
or Quite Covered.

Although The fire at the factory OF the
Richmond Paper-Manuficiuribg Company
had been gotten under control when the
report published in the Dispatch yesterday
morning was written, Il was deemed best
to call cut the remaining engine mo. y,
and this was done about 3 O'Clock. The
streams from all six engines and four from
fre-plugs contipuod TO play upon the
IRE uatil ! A. NJ, when everything was
considered safe and the department turned
! IN.
Although the Ere was first observed and
the alarm turned m at such late
hour it attracted quite q crowd Of specta-
! tors The flames which. burst out the WIN
dows and fop OF the building, made great
and beautiful silluminatiOn, which was
watched with both admiration and alarm.
The people Of CANDLES, oregon. and Libby
Hills had beautiful view. while those from
Manchester fOckcd to the Free bridge IN
large numbers.
when the roof fell IN millions OF sparks
aScended and some of them driited over
into the city as far As Main street.
ORIGIN OF TIE PIRE.
The origin Of the fire Is yet, and most
likely will ever be-, shrOuded ia mystery.
About twenty-five minutes before II O'Clock
some one who was outside OF the mill saw
smoke issuing from the windows OF the rag
room, which is in the upper part Of
the building. An alarm was turned IN,
and The bands at work, upon being notified,
rushed upstairs, but they could do nothing.
rs the room was flied with fire and smoke.
II j. not at all improbable that the fire bud
been smOuldering IN This room for hours
on possibly for days.
The Fire Department responded TO both
the first and second alarms with all possible
haste, and did their work well not to allow
more property than was TO be destroyed.
COVERED Fly INSURANCE.
\ representative Of the dispatch called
at the Office OF the company on Main street
Yesterday TO dscert3in the eXiCntOf dam ige
and the amount OF insurance Mr.. 4 H..
Christian, Jr., secretary and treasurer,
said that II was impossible 70 tell the eN-
tent OF the damage. He said, however,
that thcy Gre fully covered by insurance.
The only loss they will sustain is the profit
on goods which they would manufacture
and sell during the period in which their
operations at the mil will have to be sus-
pended.
Neither Mr.. Christian nor Mr.. J. E.
Moore. with whom more OF the insurin %
is placed than any other one house, could
give The companies in whl,h policies are
held and their amounts. Tue aggregat"
amount Of insurance l. SG4, 7j0-Sll, 439 ~
on building, STATS - on stock, and
SSj. 53I.72 on machinery.
The building and stock is almOstan entire
loss. The walls are Standing, but will have
TO be taken down, and the salvage OF brick
and other material will not amount 10 very
much--lo enough, however, it is thought,
with the insurance, 10 equal the loss.
TIE MACHINERN
When the Fire Department reached the
scene Of the fire il was evident that the main
building could not BE- saved. The at en-
ton al the frcmen, therefore, was chiefly
directed 10 keeping the fire from spread
ingto other buildings near 10y and TO sIye
TIE smaller adjacent building. in which
was most OF The valuable machinery. an
Ills they succeeded very well. Except
from water, no other property than tnat
connected with the burning establishment
was injured. TO what extent the mt
ctinery Is damaged cannot, OF course. vet
tie told. MIR. Christian think, that bg IRE
md falling falls nearly ail Of IL j. 80 much
damaged tina. It will have TO be replaced
BY new.
TO REBUILD At ONCE.
Mr.. Christian yesterday let the contract
for cleaning ont the dtjria from the build.
mg, so that what Is Of any value may be
appraised and the insurance settled up
A. soon as this is done the work OF re-
building will begin, and be pusbcdforward
with all due speed. The greatest losers
10y the catastrophe viii be The forty-hyc or
fifty persons thrown ont Of employ mcnt.